Still doesn’t change how wrong you are, as I’ve said it’s easy to see things which are different shapes as different sizes despite being the same size, e.g. people seeing cups which are different heights&widths as different sizes despite holding the same volume.

These maps are made using data of the actual area taken, not the other way around. The statistics this map was based off of around 50%, so this map shows around 50% being regained. (The actual percentage according to the ISW was 54% before the end of 2022).

It literally says in the post that he states Ukraine retook half of the area that Russia has occupied since the invasion.

Also it only looks that way because of optical tricks, your eyes see the connected areas (which most of the red is) as larger than the areas which aren’t connected as much (which a lot of the blue seems scattered). Looks about equal to me when you consider that. Plus map projections aren’t usually very accurate when it comes to area anyways, most distort it a ton.

Crimea, Transnistria, and the area outlined in bright red in Donetsk/Alchevsk have been occupied by Russia since before the war. So it is around 50% of the area that they took back